RL-trained robot locomotion looks weird in the real world — 'weird but efficient'
andreisavu · x · 2026-08-25
A practitioner's viral observation: we are not ready for how weird training robots to move via RL looks in the real world — strange, awkward gaits and postures that are nonetheless efficient.
It's a familiar embodied-AI moment: reward optimization produces uncanny-but-working locomotion, highlighting the gap between human expectations and what sim2real RL actually converges to.
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